Improvement in tuck-creasing mechanism for sewing-machines



Patented Nov. 30,1869.

I NJETERS. FNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

drifted some new no CHARLES PAGE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 97,435, dated November 30, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT'IN TUCK-CREASING- MECHANISM FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all persons to whom these presents may some Be it known that I,CHARLES PAGE, late of \Vashington, oi the District of Columbia, but nowresiding at Boston, of the county of Suffolk, and State ofMassachusetts, have made a new and useful invention vided with twogrooved wheels a' b, arranged in mannor as represented, between the twoprongs o o of the fork.

The peripheries of the wheels are to be milled,in order to enable thewheels to be revolved by the cloth, while being moved thereon, and thebase-plate of the sewing-machine, for the purpose of being sewed.

The needle of the machine is to play vertically between the two wheels.

The rear wheel has a female screw through it, and is screwed upon anarbor, (I, which has a male-screw formed on it, and goes through itandinto hearings on the prongs, and projects from a. tuck-marker, B, whichis a cylinder, provided with one or more or a series of grooves, c 0,extended, around it.

The said groove or grooves are to mark the lines of tucks on the cloth,and this is done by laying on the base-plate of the sewing-machine awire, to extend across it. r

The cloth, while being sewed, rests on the wire, which crowds it up intoone of the grooves, and thus aids in markingthe cloth.

The opposite edges of'each groove may also be milled, in order tofacilitate the revolving of the tuckuiarker by the cloth, and thekeeping the cloth from wrinkling. This milling of the edges of a. grooveis as shown on an enlarged scale at M2, in fig.5, in which thetuck-marker is shown in part, with one of its grooves.

As the cloth is fed along by the feeder of the maohine, the groovedwheels and the tuck-marker will be revolved with and by the cloth, thewheels serving to hold it down on opposite sides of the needle.

1 claim, as my invention, the following, viz:

The combination and arrangement of the tuckmarker with the presser-foot,and the grooved wheels disposed therein, as set forth.

Also, the rotary tuck-marker, provided with the screw-arbor, incombination with the presser and the grooved rotary rear wheel, havingan internal screwthread, by means of which the marker is secured inposition and rotated, all as set forth.

CHAR-LES PAGE.

Witnesses: R. H. Eon), J. R. Sxow.

